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yes it is mercantillists is a foreign trade
The correct answer is "provide for the common defence."
According to the Preamble of the U.S Constitution, the aforementioned part about providing for the common defence actually means that the nation should be well prepared against foreign interventions of any kind.
This kind of preparation does not only refer to military preparation but also refers to protecting the country at any costs from external forces.
Well, for one, Haiti really didn't have anything to offer the United States. No territory. Nothing to trade. Nothing really. But also, the idea of Africans rising up against an oppressive white government and overthrowing them made the United States very nervous, especially since we, at the time, had institutionalized slavery and a culture that was very much steeped in racism. Basically, we were afraid that if we supported the revolution in Haiti, it would encourage our own slaves to revolt against Southern slaveholders.
